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Show HN: A text adventure for developers

39 pointsby badbananaalmost 11 years ago

18 comments

onmydeskalmost 11 years ago
Blurry text is worse than the real life equivalent!<p>Sorry can&#x27;t play it, makes my eyes go funny. Can you turn that text blur off or down?
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JoshTriplettalmost 11 years ago
Slightly sad to see that &quot;ask man about emacs&quot; didn&#x27;t work. I was pretty amused by the &quot;Don&#x27;t know anything about that&quot; when queried about &quot;open source&quot;, though.<p>&quot;look at tunnel&quot; should work after opening the tunnel.<p>I love the background changes.<p>Why does &quot;get container&quot; not work? The response didn&#x27;t give a reason.<p>&quot;Welcome to the developer console; you were kind of expected.&quot; made me laugh.<p>...why can I deploy the beard?<p>The music at the end was unexpected.
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pbjorklundalmost 11 years ago
Man, that took me back to a simpler time.<p>I for one loved the green on black. But thats probably because I actually used green on black terminals back in my youth...<p>Gj Carl-Petter and Juha!
tdicolaalmost 11 years ago
Awesome, nice work! I love the retro CRT look.<p>For folks that haven&#x27;t played text adventures in a long time, check out the annual interactive fiction competition winners for some great modern ones: <a href="http://www.ifcomp.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ifcomp.org</a>. They&#x27;re meant to be played in about an hour, have hints, and usually don&#x27;t rely on cheap deaths or other frustrating tropes of old games.
badbananaalmost 11 years ago
If you wish to give feedback or ask questions; please go ahead. I and a workmate did this at a work-related hackathon a couple weeks ago.
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slipstream-almost 11 years ago
The ancient cloud guru URL thing.. a proxy here in the way stripped out the answer, I had to curl through tor. go figure.<p>edit: just finished. I laughed at some bits, all in all I enjoyed it. I facepalmed when I realised I needed chmod (which I had to look at jsbeautified app.js to get the hint - I was trying su&#x2F;sudo!).
danielweberalmost 11 years ago
<i>help</i> Totally stuck on the Javascript declaration. Tried <i>eval</i> and <i>call</i> and <i>apply</i><p><i>EDIT</i> Oh, I&#x27;m expected to &quot;cheat.&quot; Cute. :)<p><i>question</i> Looking at the source, how does the solution to the robot puzzle actually get activated?<p><i>EDIT</i> Oh, it&#x27;s a direct string comparison. Okay.<p><i>bug</i> If I try to get the man, I&#x27;m told<p>&quot;You can&#x27;t see no man here&quot;<p><i>bug</i> I can&#x27;t cut-and-paste the hashed password. That sucks.<p><i>bug</i> &quot;disintigrates&quot;<p><i>bug</i> I can&#x27;t cut-and-paste the ascii code. There is no way I am typing all that in by eye.<p><i>bugfix</i> If I highlight the code and then right-click before letting go of the mouse I can copy
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Udoalmost 11 years ago
I absolutely love it. For the last LD I did a terminal-style game too, but it wasn&#x27;t nearly as good.<p><pre><code> Forces the solution. You may need to use this if it fails without it. </code></pre> What&#x27;s that Unix command line switch déjà vu I&#x27;m having there...
gregchapplealmost 11 years ago
This is just a pet peeve of mine. I don&#x27;t understand why you ask &quot;Are you sure you want to leave this page&quot; when I click back, or try to close the tab. I am sure - that&#x27;s why I tried to leave.<p>edit: fixed typo
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imdsmalmost 11 years ago
I tried to `ask richard stallman about gnu`, among other things, but it wouldn&#x27;t work.<p>Also, I&#x27;d stop the blurring effect after a while, that really grated on me. I&#x27;d love to have time to try it properly.
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erikbalmost 11 years ago
Did anybody really understand how to do the javascript thing? Up to now I&#x27;ve only read about people cheating.<p>edit:<p>&#x2F;SPOILER<p>literally the moment I clicked &quot;send&quot; on this comment I thought about using the console to execute some javascript... welll.
pepijndevosalmost 11 years ago
Is it normal for text adventures you just have to try random stuff?<p>I had no clue how to get design. I thought I had missed a clue from the developer maybe. Turned out I just needed to enter a command that was not introduced before, or listed in the help page.
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jarizalmost 11 years ago
How do I get past the wizard? I said &#x27;neverdeployonfriday&#x27; but it&#x27;s not working :(
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chingjunalmost 11 years ago
Yeah, a developer cannot get &quot;design&quot;.
jwarrenalmost 11 years ago
Great fun. Quick pointer though - the convention in IF games is to map X (for eXamine) to look at. Kept tripping me up.
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christudoralmost 11 years ago
I love this: found a few interesting tools on the internet as I went through it, which was a nice bonus.
fsiefkenalmost 11 years ago
how was this made? is the z-code available? I know there is a parchment javascript library where you can run z-code in the browser.
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icemelt8almost 11 years ago
How to enter the convention
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